Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) Sei poeti toscani (Six Tuscan Poets) 1543–1544 Oil on panel, 132.1 x 131.1 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis See also: This group portrait of six distinguished Tuscan poets and writers celebrates the golden age of Italian…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) La tentazione di Cristo (The Temptation of Christ) c.1516–1525 Oil on panel, 89.85 x 69.69 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis This painting portrays one of three temptations that Christ faced during his forty days fast in the…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Piazza San Marco 1881 Oil on canvas, 65.41 x 81.28 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis On his tour of Italy, Renoir made a stop in Venice in late October 1881. His Venetian canvases focus primarily on…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Psiche (Psyche) 1793–1794 Marble, 150 x 50 x 60 cm Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen Taking as his inspiration the Late Antique text Asinus aureus (The Golden Ass) by Apuleius, Antonio Canova, the outstanding sculptor of Italian Neoclassicism, interpreted the…
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) Spring 1894 Oil on canvas, 178.4 × 80.3 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles Barefoot young women and children adorned with flower crowns and playing musical instruments lead a procession through a city built of marble. Splashes of color,…
Verrocchio, Andrea del (1435-1488) Madonna col Bambino e angeli (Madonna and Child with Angels) c.1475 Stucco & paint relief, 140 x 80.5 x 15.5 cm Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol